the wedding dance

This is sad story of a man, Awiyao, who in spite of being in love with his wife, Lumnay, feels the need to marryanother in order to have a son. According to the story if a man does not have a son he is considered to be inferior to others intheir community. It is not a case of not loving Lumnay, which he does, but of his perceived necessity of a son to beconsidered a man. He is however, insensitive believing the answer to Lumnay's sorrow would be to join the other women at the wedding dance.Little regard for her feelings and the willingness to abandon her seem to be the predominate thoughts in the author's mind.She seems to obsess over the necklace of his grandmother which he had given her. Towards the end of the story I had thefeeling she contemplated suicide but in the end changed her mind.Introduction: The introduction is when the protagonist is in their hut listening to the festivity outside and thinking of the past.Initial Incident: When she remembers how her husband courted her in the past.Rising Action: When they realized that they cannot have any childClimax: When they society norms dictates their future that her must marry another girl to have a childFalling Action: The Wedding Day: She's alone in the house contemplatingEnding: When she's in the field touching the grains.
Book Review
They have been married for seven harvest periods yet Awiyao and Lumnay weren't able to producechildrenand Awiyao badly need one to affirm his virility and to establish his place among his tribesmen so he decided to leave Lumnay and marryMadulimay.The story is set in one of the mountainous provinces in the northern Philippines on the eve of Awiyao's weddingto Madulimay, while gangsas beat andwomendanceto celebrate the union. Awiyao slipped away from the celebration toconvince Lumnay to join the dancing women. Instead, their conversation turned to a passionate goodbye, each expressinglove for the other, their speeches filled with recollection of precious memories,...